{"id":2880,"date":"2017-05-31T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.thedev.ca\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:40:56","slug":"provincial-government-acknowledges-lco-in-proposed-changes-to-ontarios-employment-and-labour-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/provincial-government-acknowledges-lco-in-proposed-changes-to-ontarios-employment-and-labour-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Provincial Government Acknowledges LCO in Proposed Changes to Ontario\u2019s Employment and Labour Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On May 30, 2017, the provincial government announced its intention to introduce legislation, <em>The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act\u00b8 2017<\/em>, that would amend Ontario\u2019s <em>Employment Standards Act<\/em> and <em>Labour Relations Act<\/em>.\u00a0 The government publicly acknowledged the role of the LCO\u2019s recent <em>Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work<\/em> report in its proposals, specifically the LCO\u2019s analysis regarding \u201cdependent contractors.\u201d\u00a0 The provincial proposals include several other reforms that were recommended in the <a href=\"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/publications\/vulnerable-workers-and-precarious-work-final-report\/\">LCO\u2019s report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mol\/en\/2017\/05\/proposed-changes-to-ontarios-employment-and-labour-laws.html\">https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/mol\/en\/2017\/05\/proposed-changes-to-ontarios-employment-and-labour-laws.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 30, 2017, the provincial government announced its intention to introduce legislation, The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act\u00b8 2017, that would amend Ontario\u2019s Employment Standards Act and Labour Relations Act.\u00a0 The government publicly acknowledged the role of the LCO\u2019s recent Vulnerable Workers and Precarious Work report in its proposals, specifically the LCO\u2019s analysis regarding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Provincial Government Acknowledges LCO in Proposed Changes to Ontario\u2019s Employment and Labour Laws - Law Commission of Ontario","description":"On May 30, 2017, the provincial government announced its intention to introduce legislation, The Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act\u00b8 2017 , that would amend Ontar"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lco-cdo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}